Curated OER
Martin Luther King Jr.
Students explore the life and contributions of Martin Luther King Jr.
Curated OER
Be a Good Friend
Students discover characteristics of a good friend. In this social skills lesson, students read Clifford's Manners and discuss ways Clifford used his manners in the story. An activity that rewards students for modeling being courteous...
Other
Pic lits.com: Inspired Picture Writing
This innovative resource offers a wide selection of photographs and words to stimulate writing in an interactive format.
Other
Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Story Writing With Arthur
This series of 12 downloadable activities teach students some basics of story writing, using books or videos from the PBS "Arthur" series as a springboard. Activities include creating story maps, asking questions about characters and...
Other
Stone Soup: How to Submit Creative Writing and Art to Stone Soup
This resource accepts contributions from younger children, up through age 13. This page explains the process to follow when submitting contributions. Also at this site students will find a link to a sample issue.
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starters: Intriguing Titles
In this lesson, an interactive link included to help generate ideas for stories. A button is clicked and a topic is given. In a writer's notebook or journal, each student will use the topic given and develop it. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Squiggles
After reading "The Squiggle" by Carole Lexa Schafer, students use their own creative vision and talent to turn a squiggle into a masterpiece. They use crayons to color background and details, anything that helps make their squiggle into...
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: School
A collection of images of school to use as writing prompts. Students can make text-to-self connections, write creative stories, or just write about how the students in the images might feel.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Word Game for Kids: The Opposite Game for Kids
In this word game, young writers explore antonyms (and prepositions), then create an original story about them. For ideas they can click the nouns and opposites buttons until they find a topic they want to write about.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Pizzaz!
Come and check out this incredible resource from the University of Oregon. This site features links to creative-writing for poetry and fiction, as well as other teacher resources.
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Puzzled Over Paragraphs?
Here is an excellent list of ideas for teachers to utilize in their classroom to accompany paragraph writing skills. These creative and exciting activities will sharpen your student's writing abilities.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Fact Families With Pictures
Students will use pictorial models to write as many equations for each picture as they can. Multiple variations and extension ideas are included in this lesson.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Writers Contest: Story Central
Stories by young writers grades K-3. Students can log in and keep their own writing materials or create "mashups" using elements from the stories provided here.
Other
Teachit.co.uk: Library of English Teaching Resources
Teachit.co.uk is a free online resource for English teachers. Content includes classroom materials, schemes of work, lesson plans, and teaching tools. Look at the Top 5s, the English Teaching Online, the Teachit Trails, and the Tweakits....
Other
Danielle's Place: Bible Theme Crafts for Kids
If you teach religion to elementary students, then you have to see this site! It is overflowing with creative ideas to use in your classroom and will get your students excited about the Bible. Many of these lessons also integrate math,...